That zoning may have made sense then, before we knew that car dependence kills millions annually from crashes and from air pollution, or threatens the lives of billions through the global warming it causes. It may have made sense then, when federal officials, in thrall to the ...
You eventually make it to the store and get your Popsicle. But now you can’t remember the way back, so you have to ask a stranger for directions to get home. As you make your way across the road, the smoggy air makes it hard for you to breathe. When you finally get back...
to include support for the local economy, a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, and control over the sources of renewable energy. This practice can be implemented within smart sustainable city concepts in order to increase the production and use of clean technology while, at ...
Life cycle assessment and economic analysis of the electric motorcycle in the city of Barcelona and the impact on air pollution In this work, the evaluation of the life cycle of the service provided by a medium-power motorcycle in a Spanish urban environment was carried out, compari... G Ca...
A vast body of work has been published on different issues related to urban energy resilience, indicating the availability of a substantial amount of (fragmented) knowledge on this subject. This preliminary study attempted to synthesize existing knowledge on urban energy resilience and address the ...
Laws preventing industrial pollution have been so successful that the primary sources of urban air and water pollution are now “non point source”[4] Has little to do with large industrial facilities Outside the realm of control for zoning ...
The accumulation of 15 vulnerability markers, grouped into six dimensions (maternal age, smoking, body mass index (BMI), socio-economic, medico-obstetrical and environmental vulnerabilities) was described and analyzed in comparison with four APO. Among the 3686 included women, 20.8% were aged under...
The spatial distribution of urban land also shapes the societal impacts of environmental stresses, such as human exposure to and health consequences of air pollution, heatwaves, and vector-borne diseases10. To better understand the future of urbanization and inform new urban development, many have ...
Predicting walking-to-work using street-level imagery and deep learning in seven Canadian cities Article Open access 01 November 2022 Spatial and deep learning analyses of urban recovery from the impacts of COVID-19 Article Open access 11 February 2023 Uncovering local aggregated air quality ...
Therefore, to bridge the research gap, we adopted a data-driven hierarchical modeling approach to identify the most influential factors in shaping COVID-19 transmissions across different Chinese cities and clusters. The data used in this study are from Chinese officials, and hierarchical modeling ...